Lyme Disease Biobank
@lymebiobank.bsky.social
Non-profit providing human biological samples to investigators developing better tests for Lyme and tick-borne infections. Whole blood, serum, plasma, & urine available from people with early Lyme, persistent Lyme, & controls. We also have a tissue bank.
I'm really curious is there are differences in strains more likely to cause neurologic symptoms. And if different cell types are involved as the Borrelia disseminate into different tissues.
October 22, 2025 at 9:27 PM
I'm really curious is there are differences in strains more likely to cause neurologic symptoms. And if different cell types are involved as the Borrelia disseminate into different tissues.
Really elegant work and beautiful images! Do you think all strains of Borrelia disseminate using the same mechanism? Did you expect pericytes to be involved? Congratulations!
October 22, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Really elegant work and beautiful images! Do you think all strains of Borrelia disseminate using the same mechanism? Did you expect pericytes to be involved? Congratulations!
That is so cool! I didn't know that. She gave a great talk at ILADS.
October 13, 2025 at 2:31 PM
That is so cool! I didn't know that. She gave a great talk at ILADS.
Kephera has a poster at ICLB in September.
August 20, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Kephera has a poster at ICLB in September.
What a good girl! Give Jewel pets for me.
August 15, 2025 at 5:42 PM
What a good girl! Give Jewel pets for me.
What's the cute pup's name?
August 15, 2025 at 2:16 PM
What's the cute pup's name?
There are several single-tier assays in development that I'm enthusiastic about - all posters at ICLB. I'm really looking forward to that meeting.
August 5, 2025 at 3:24 PM
There are several single-tier assays in development that I'm enthusiastic about - all posters at ICLB. I'm really looking forward to that meeting.
That is a good point - I don't know how the reporter missed that - it's on the Aces website.
August 5, 2025 at 3:09 PM
That is a good point - I don't know how the reporter missed that - it's on the Aces website.
Finally - an article acknowledging rashes aren't all bulls-eyes. All the Lyme and tick coverage is great - but so many articles focus on the bulls-eye and it's not what most Lyme rashes look like.
August 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Finally - an article acknowledging rashes aren't all bulls-eyes. All the Lyme and tick coverage is great - but so many articles focus on the bulls-eye and it's not what most Lyme rashes look like.
"While a bull-eye-shaped rash is telltale sign of Lyme disease, this type of EM is actually not a common presentation, said Liz Horn, PhD, MBI, principal investigator of the Lyme Disease Biobank, a biorepository of samples from people with Lyme disease."
August 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
"While a bull-eye-shaped rash is telltale sign of Lyme disease, this type of EM is actually not a common presentation, said Liz Horn, PhD, MBI, principal investigator of the Lyme Disease Biobank, a biorepository of samples from people with Lyme disease."
Check out the decision tree in figure 4. Being able to identify the stage of Lyme disease would help patients and providers.
July 16, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Check out the decision tree in figure 4. Being able to identify the stage of Lyme disease would help patients and providers.
Did you blow up the image to find them? Or can you see them in the pic as is?
June 30, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Did you blow up the image to find them? Or can you see them in the pic as is?
sCD163, IFN-β, and IL-10 did not change during acute Lyme but were decreased during convalescence. These results using biobank samples provide information on the inflammatory processes involved in the progression and resolution of Lyme disease.
June 20, 2025 at 10:02 PM
sCD163, IFN-β, and IL-10 did not change during acute Lyme but were decreased during convalescence. These results using biobank samples provide information on the inflammatory processes involved in the progression and resolution of Lyme disease.